Piano vs. Guitar

For Christmas I got a guitar. (I have been wanting to learn for a while now, but didn't have one to learn on...) My sister said that I should learn before I had one because then I would have a reason for having one, but I have a different kind of motivation, if I have something, I will use it. And I have.
I have been thinking about the differences between the piano, and the guitar. I can play both of these, and honestly I think guitar is a lot easier. Why?
Well I have been playing  the guitar for 5 days, and I almost have a song learned, The Only Exception by Paramore. And I was thinking about it, With piano, you have to know how to read music, know the key signatures, know they key names, time signatures, sharps, flats, etc. Guitar, you need to know how to read the diagrams, know the string names, and how to tune it. Piano is a much slower instrument to learn. but, both are incredible.

Christmas

Tomorrow is Christmas. I just got back from shopping. I feel bad for the people who have to be working, and I feel guilty for not having everything ready a couple days ago. But I have a reason why. It's not a good one... But it just doesn't feel like Christmas is tomorrow. I honestly don't believe it.
So I am wondering... What is the true meaning of Christmas? Here is what comes to mind.
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=0AvzaGkekDE
So that's not really explanatory...
Anyways. One of my favorite things about Christmas is the snow. And sadly, we haven't had ANY that has stayed for more than a day. My choir needs to sing the song.
One thing my family does that I really like is we take turns opening presents. We spend more time together too.
Christmas is an awesome time of year. :)

Writing

A while back I tried writing a story. It has gone pretty well and I realized how much I like to write. But the last story has freaked me out, so I tried to start again. I am realizing that a lot of research should go into it. My first attempt I didn't really need to worry about that. But this time, I do. I have to figure out where she is going, her name, choices she makes, etc. I am in complete controll of someone's life. I don't look at the people in my book as characters, but people. And I have gotten a taste of how little choices determine you outcome of life. For example:
In my last book there is a girl who is treated horribly by her family. She has a "secret grove" I guess you could say and she goes quite often. One day she decided to go farther in and explore, and meets a guy. And that guy becomes a huge part of her life. Had she not gone farther, she would have never met him, and her life would be completely different.

I will be completely honest, this is nerve wracking for me. I have controll over someone's life. I determine their destiny and little choices I make. And so this time I am researching things so I can help her make the right decisions. Why do I worry about it? To be honest I don't know. Maybe it's because I would want someone to do the same for me.

Snow day

My choir class had a song called "snow day" and before I would joke "let go sing it outside so it will snow." and we never actually did. But here is the cool part. 4 times in a row after we sang it, it snowed. Is the song magical, or was it all random perfect timing?

One to ten to one

So recently I have had a super hard time focusing. Either because of thoughts running through my head, not having an attention span, stressing over things... Etc. So I decided to try and help myself focus. So I created the one to ten to one.
Here is what you do.
1. Count slowly from one to ten.
2. List off the things on your mind
3. Address all of them with a reason to stop worrying about them and give yourself a time that you can start thinking about it. (this way you are not forcing the thought out of your mind you are just putting it away for a little)
4. Count from ten to one.
5. (optional) say a little prayer to keep that focus.

So as an example... Say you are worried about a friend and it is complelety keeping you from talking to other people and focusing on what you need to do. Here is what you do:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
I am worried about so and so because of this.
Okay. I know you are worried but now you need to put that out of your mind until you are done doing this project.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

And you are finished. It totally helps me.

Things that make me mad

I guess I should justify right away that I don't get mad easy. I can remember the last time I was "mad" and that was like 3 months ago. And I was more hurt then mad.
So I thought today I would explain what really will make me mad.
1. When people are treating my friends bad
2. When I tell someone something and they go tell other people when it was a secret. Or if I say something as a joke about someone to a person, and they pass it on because they took it seriously. Then that person thinks I meant it... and drama starts.
I will say honestly that I found out that number 2 happened today. I was even starting to trust this person, but they now have destroyed one of my few real friendships. And I will be honest I have no idea what to do... because now I have to clear it up with my friend, and tell the other its not okay to do that. So if you have any advice, please tell.

The Other Me

So I have a friend named Melanie. She has no facial emotions so as a joke, my friends started saying "hey look! I am Melanie!" and then copy her facial expression. And eventually she started  calling me Melanie. So I am her, and she is me. This morning I was bored, so I got on her Face Book page and "liked" 30 of her pictures, and commented on a couple of her things (and this makes her iPod malfunction). And this is what we have been doing since

Melanie:
Dear Me,
u obviously had nothing to do during ur time other than looking thru ur pictures and liking A LOT of them!! goodness me! u make me crazy sometimes. u know that.
Love Me.

Melissa:
 Dear me,
does it ever bother you when people type in a run on sentence or they tipe lik tis or EvEn LiKe ThIs I fInD It VeRy AnNoYiNg AnD TiMe CoNsUmInG bEcAuSe I HaVe BeEn DoInG tHiS FoR lIkE 10 MiNuTeS
Anyways! Stop doing that. Its so annoying and time wasting. Really I don't understand why you are writing on your own wall. Are you really that desperate? gosh. and the fact that you even have a w...all for people to walk past and read is just ridiculous. And who is to say that it wasn't yourself who liked all of those things? We are the same person. you are I and I are you. Got it? To bad.
Truth be told, you dint know why you are writing this. Perhaps its because my favorite color is purple. and my second favorite color is blue. Oh wait! It's yours too! How weird. Stop being a time waster,
Me

Melanie:
Dear Me,
why am i so confusing? I don't make sense at all. jeez me.
Love Me :)

Melissa:
Dear Self,
Did you say cheese me? Cause that's what it sounded like. maybe that's why you are so confused with yourself.
Your worried self,
Self.

So really, there is no point to it. But it is still fun. :)
I also thought I would put up the tree man. Sorry its an awful picture.